The work begins---what it means
I received a link to a blog from a Fr. Stephen from ambermae that had so many ideas applicable to me. This paragraph reminds me there are no shortcuts in Orthodoxy.
We come, day in and day out, to the hard lesson of obedience to God’s commandments. We confess our sins. We receive absolution. We receive the Body and Blood of God. We are taught to pray without ceasing (though this is rarely acheived). We fast regularly. We read the Scriptures. We read the lives of the saints. And we ground ourselves in theology that wasn’t necessarily written yesterday. There is not a “latest revelation” to be had - there is Christ. He is the revelation of the Father. The rest is frequently something else - but not from God.